• 0 Posts
  • 142 Comments
Joined 5 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 18th, 2020

help-circle
  • Economic collapse doesn’t matter if you:

    1. Own the means of production to sustain your way of life

    2. Have fully automated it

    3. Can protect it using automated security

    Which is what billionaires are going for. They do not care if economic collapse leads to billions of deaths, as long as they live in an automated utopia themselves.


  • It is about the prospect of profit. If you can make a machine that puts everyone out of a job, the profit is literally infinite. The same or better productivity output with zero labour cost input. You would have to be out of your mind not to invest in the infinite money machine.

    Unfortunately (fortunately?), the infinity money machine is not possible with LLMs. These bullshit generators are a dead end in AI tech. But nobody with investor money believes that yet.


  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlthink of john shareholder
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    Most of the water use for corn isn’t necessary either, because nearly half the corn we grow gets burned in engines in the form of corn ethanol mixed into gasoline.

    I’ll say that again because it is an unfathomable stat. Nearly half the corn the US grows gets burned to make cars go. That represents 40x the water use of AI if OP is to be believed about the 1/80th stat.
















  • Modern studies using freezers with well-understood properties have observed the Mpemba effect where water supercools before freezing. Water that starts out cooler tends to reach a lower supercooled temperature before freezing.

    Also from the Wikipedia article.

    If you define the Mpemba effect as hot water reaching 0 degrees faster, then no, it’s not observable. But if you define the Mpemba effect as heated water freezing sooner, (remembering that freezing can initiate below the “freezing point” when water is subcooled) then the Mpemba effect may be observed.

    If true, it would be interesting that cool water is less likely to nucleate and form ice than water that was heated.